VMware for Disaster Recovery

Traditional disaster recovery plans depend on a very complex set of processes and infrastructure: duplicate servers, getting data to a recovery site, reinstalling operating systems, restoring backups, and so on. Because disaster recovery can be so complex, organizations often find themselves unable to provide quality protection to more than a privileged few of their production workloads, leaving other workloads (file/print, internal web servers, departmental applications) unprotected or poorly protected.

VMware virtualization simplifies the disaster recovery process and makes it much easier to manage the disaster recovery solution.

Choosing the Right Method

For organizations that own multiple regional data centers, a private cloud solution with VMware SRM allows IT to leverage existing infrastructure. For organizations that have only one primary datacenter or for those looking to consolidate their datacenters, VMware Disaster Recovery as a Service allows for agile, cloud-based recovery at a low price point.

Uptime is Critical for Business

Revenue

Services that are continuously available help ensure revenue streams

Reputation

Protects relationships with customers

Productivity

Allows for employees to work at full capacity

Compliance

Maintain responsiveness to auditing and discovery requests

VMware Recovery as a Service

Simple and secure replication and failover for vSphere

vCHS Disaster Recovery is a Recovery as a Service (RaaS) solution that provies an asynchronous replication and failover solution for vSphere customers. It provides warm standby capacity with essential failover automation support, self-service RPO settings from 15 min to 24 hours, and RTO of 4 hours or less. Initial data seeding is performed by offline disk to allow the solution to be used in bandwidth-constrained datacenters.

Included as a Part of the Service (No Additional Costs)

Up to 7-day disaster recovery tests, twice a year

30 days of recovered run time

VMware Private Cloud Recovery

A private-cloud disaster solution allows you leverage existing hardware and datacenter investments, and is based on Site Recovery Manager (SRM). The private-cloud recovery solution is formed by three key components:

VMware vSphere is the foundation with instances of vCenter Server at two datacenters

An instance of SRM is configured at both the protected and recovery sites. The SRM instance provides the management and automation capabilities through tight integration with vSphere and vCenter Server.

Finally, customers have the choice to use either vSphere Replication, or array-based replication. vSphere Replication is included with vSphere at no additional cost.